Morris tribune., 1887-12-21

territories, with their population of, per-
haps GO, 000,0 600 today. The waolos amount
of our export and import trade together has
never, think, reached $1,000, 100000 any
ono yeer. Our internal home trade on $780,
900 miles Of railway, along 1900 miles of
ocean coast, over the five great lakes and
along 10000 miles Of navigablo rivers,
reaches the enormous annual aggregate of
more than $4,000 DOC, coo, and perhaps this
year $50, 900 0cO, 900.
ILLIMTTABI.E FREE TRADE At HOME.
at is into this illimital,.e trade, even now
in its infancy and destined to attain mag
nitude not dreamed OF twenty years ago, THAT
the Europeans are struggling to enter. 1t is
the heritage OF the American people, Of their
children and of their chi.lycn's children. 1t
gives an absolutely FREQ trade over a terri
| tory nearly as large as all Earopc, and tho
| profit is all our own. The genuine free trader
appears unable to see CT comprehend that the
continental trade-not our exchanges with
| EUrope--is the great source of cur prosper
| ity. President Cleveland NOW plainly pro-
poses policy that will admit Europe to
share of this trade
4 NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY NEEDED.
| 'But you are in favor Of extending our for
! eign trade, are yoa hot::n'
| ~Gertainly l am, in ali practical and adj
vailtageous ways but not On the principle of
| the free traders, by which we shall be
| constantly exchanging ticihr for dime.
| Moreover, the foreign tlada is often very
| delIsis'e. Cotton is isE;ai'fact2Ted in the
| city of my residence. II . hos Of cotton
| goods is Scl.i .G0 miles % the province of
1 New Brunswick IL Is 10. ei.sn trade. If ship
| ped lT,e02 miles roasld Cane Hum to Wash
4 ington territory it is t,osl tic trade. The
| ma.s,it;.,se ri The Unioa and tie immensely
| Of it, internal trace require u rev political
economy. The t,,et;s"& written for Euro
pean states do rot grasp our peculiar situa-
! tionn
| THE SOUTH EEG3, rleDTEC ZION.
"How will tho PrcSi' ,"lt,ss mess SO be taken
i in the SOUTH" ''Idoaa dare to answer that
| question. The truth haa I,s,a so long obscured
| by certain local cueS*iois of unreasoning
| prejudice that nobody cal hope for indus
trial enlightenment a;.soat% islc,i' leaders just
| yet. But in ny yi2:. I.,e aoa;h above all
sections of tho C2ic-. mcetis :, protective
I tariff. The two Viz, i.:..I, I,u.,1 Carolina,
| KentuckT, Missouri, Tennessee, alabama and
| Georgia have enormous ssssa2,t,.; and facth-
ties for developing AID !!a:;.,i.:1;; manufac
1 lures. They canHot d" I ing without
| QrOLecslOn EANGil - NtS3 as some OF
| those states have made iii lie checked if the
| presidents message isenactel iato law Their
senator's and Representatives can prevent it,
| but thcy are so usel to following anything
labeled Democratic that worry probably they
will follow tho president and bL ,ilt the prog
ress already made. 81 the ti,la some of the
southern states get fre, iron ore and coal,
while tobacco is taxed, they may have occa-
| sion to sit down and calculate the value of
| Democratic free trade to their local inter
| ests.n ...-- ~.
| THE FALLACY OF ADMITTING RAW MATERIAL.
| "Will mot the presidents recommendation
! to admit raw material find strong support"
/ ''Not by wise protectionia,s i'll our time.
| Perhaps some greedy manufacturers may
| think that with free coal or free iron ore
/ they can do great things, but if they should
/ succeed in trying will, as the boys say, catch
it on the rebound. II the homo trade i'll raw
material is destroyed or seriously injured
railroads will be the first to feel it,
| If that vast interest is crippled in
any direction the financial fabric
| of the whole country will feel
it quickly and seriously. If any man can
I give a reason why We should arrange the
! tariff to favor the raw material of other
| countries in a competition against our ma
terial of the same kind, I should like to hear
| it. Should that recommendation of the presi-
dent be approved it would turn 100000
! American laborers out of employment before
it had been year in operation"
A FULL AND FAIR CONTEST ON THE ISSUE.
f. "What must be the marked and general
effect of the presidents messagem
sit will bring the country where it ought
| tn Ia brone,ht-tO full and fair contest
on the question of protection. The presi-
dent himself makes it the one issue
by presenting no other in his messag,
think it well to have the question sett ed.
The Democratic party in power is standing
+ menace. to the industrial prosperity of the
country; That menace should be removed ii
the policy it foreshadows should be made
certain. Nothing is so mischievous to
business as uncertainty nothing SO paralyz-
ing as doubt G. w. s.